Jacqueline Carey Quotes
Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
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Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
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Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
